15 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is

our refuge.

16 Come, behold the works of the Lord: what desolations he hath made in the earth.

17 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

18 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

19 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

SELECTION 9.

PSALM 93.

1 THE Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

2 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice: the floods lift up their waves.

4 The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters: yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.

PSALM 107 : 23-31.

6 THEY that go down to the sea in ships: that do business in great waters;

7 These see the works of the Lord: and his wonders in the deep.

8 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind: which lifteth up the waves thereof.

9 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 10 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wit's end.

11 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble: and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

12 He maketh the storm a calm: so that the waves thereof are still.

13 Then are they glad because they be quiet: so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

14 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness: and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

SELECTION 10.
PSALM 121.

1 I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help.

2 My help cometh from the Lord: which made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day: nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

PSALM 124.

9 IF it had not been the Lord who was on our side: now may Israel say;

10 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side: when men rose up against us:

11 Then they had swallowed us up quick: when their wrath was kindled against us.

12 Then the waters had overwhelmed us: the stream had gone over our soul:

13 Then the proud waters: had gone over our soul. 14 Blessed be the Lord: who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

15 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

16 Our help is in the name of the Lord: who made heaven and earth.

SELECTION 11.

PSALM 139: 1-12, 14-18.

1 O LORD: thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising: thou understandest my thought afar off.

3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down: and art acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word in my tongue: but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

5 Thou hast beset me behind and before: and laid thine hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit: or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

9 If I take the wings of the morning: and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

10 Even there shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me: even the night shall be light about me.

12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

13 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

14 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret: and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect: and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

16 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God: how great is the sum of them!

17 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

SELECTION 12.
PSALM 144.

1 BLESSED be the Lord my strength: which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight;

2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer: my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him: or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

7 Send thine hand from above: rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity: and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children: whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out: that there be no complaining in our streets.

15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.

GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

ANCIENT HYMNS AND CANTICLES.

I.

VENITE, EXULTEMUS DOMINO.

COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

Let us come before His Presence with thanksgiving: and show ourselves glad in Him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods.

In His hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is His also.

The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands prepared the dry land.

O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

For He is the Lord our God: and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of Him.

For He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with His truth.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

WE

II.

TE DEUM LAUDAMUS.

E praise Thee, O God: we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.

All the earth doth worship Thee: the Father everlasting. To Thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein;

To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim: continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth;